How to use TFS 2008 with Delphi 7 via MSBuild

Question

Has anyone had any luck using MSBuild with Delphi 7 as part of a TFS 2008 (Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008) integration? Curious if it is possible, and if it is, what is necessary to set it up.

Thanks!

Update : I am aware that the later versions of Delphi use MSBuild, but it would appear for right now upgrading isn't an option.

Answer 1

To use MSBuild with Delphi 7, you must first produce a representative .dproj file bearing the correct XML markup (as seen in later versions of Delphi). If you construct them properly, then MSBuild will recognize them, and (as directed in the XML markup) will place the appropriate calls to the Delphi 7 compiler. It's simple enough, but it takes a lot of effort to manually produce the .dproj markup!

EDIT : This guy offers an apparently-functional automated solution to this problem, available on request!

Answer 2

You may write a MSBuild task that invokes dcc32.exe (delphi 7) and passes to it the appropriated commmand line (dpr file name). I wrote a similiar task for NANT in order to integrate delphi 7 with cc.net